The programme is funded by the Scottish Government to contribute to the following key objectives;-
Capacity building for mental health in primary care: increasing professional knowledge, capacity and capability; developing services and working with Community Health Partnerships to set and implement priorities for primary care mental health
Capacity building for mental health research in primary care
Policy development
Disseminating learning around mental health in primary care – providing access to appropriate information and evidence to those with responsibilities for primary care mental health planning and service delivery
Latest Developments
The Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development Programme is working with Positive Mental Attitudes, East Glasgow Community Health Partnershipand the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to explore the degree to which services and supports operate on an inclusive and participative manner and the extent to which the nature of services and responses contain elements of exclusion that could deter people from accessing or continuing to use services. East Glasgow is characterised by extremely high levels of poverty and deprivation with many risk factors associated with the incidence of mental health problems present.
The project will encourage and enable professional workers to reflect on their practice by examining key aspects of their approaches to people with mental health issues who are affected by inequalities issues.
This will include reviewing the nature of the therapeutic relationships, issues of power and control, language and processes as en/dis abling mechanisms and the extent to which active ‘recovery’ features in work with clients.
To read more about the latest developments please refer to E-bulletin 4 Tackling Inequalities.
Scottish Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development Programme Bulletin
This is a series of newsletters which highlights the on-going and future activities of the programme.
Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development Programme
School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health - General Practice
University of Edinburgh
20 West Richmond Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9DX
Living Better:
Improving mental health and wellbeing of people with long term conditions
The Living Better project has been funded by the Scottish Government for three years to improve the care and treatment for people who have chronic physical ill health and mental health problems.
